New toxins homologous to ParE belonging to three-component toxin-antitoxin systems in Escherichia coli O157:H7

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 719-732

  Hallez, Régis ^a,d   Geeraerts, Damien ^a   Sterckx, Yann ^b,c   Mine, Natacha ^a   Loris, Remy ^b,c   Van Melderen, Laurence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); PROTEIN PARE; ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANTITOXINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 77951555583     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07129.x     Document Type: Article

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